Modernization

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Apr 28, 2006, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
>Jay R. Ashworth propounded (on Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 03:03:39PM -0400):
>| On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 11:44:26AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
>| > Vi also has 26 hold buffers, a-z, which can be used to store
>| > blocks of text while writing.  Even more scarey is that one can
>| > load sequences of characters in a buffer, then execute them from
>| > the buffer.  I frequently use this when dealing with complex
>| > substitutions which allows me to edit the substitute until I get
>| > it right.
>| 
>| I usually put such things on the end of
>| 
>| :map *
>| 
>| myself, I had forgotten you could execute the yank buffers.
>
>One of the lost features of vi, which I've never seen in a man page.
>
>I guess I should make Fred Buck's stellar article about 'vi' macros
>available?

That would be interesting.  We periodially have a ``Stupid Vi Tricks''
session at the Seattle Unix Group meetings.

Probably the best book on vi and other *nix tools is ``Unix Text
Processing'' by Dogherty and O'Reilly.  I think this is out of print now,
but is available as a PDF, downloadable for free from O'Reilly publishing.

Bill
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